Show Popularity of the TypeWriter Forty feminine manipulators of typewriting type-writing machines have been recently examined by the Civil Service Commission Com-mission and they have just received notice of a grade to which their proficiency profi-ciency entitles them It was the first examination of the kind and was altogether al-together a curious exhibition The exercises were reid sentence by sentence by the examiner and at each pause the fingers of forty women aijd girls would fly with almost lightning speed over forty machines Some who were accustomed ac-customed to write shorthand from dictation woud catch the words while writing and finish the sentence nearly I as soon as the examiner This act of Civil Service Commission is the suggestive sugges-tive of the rapidity with which the typewriter type-writer is superseding all other forms of copying Chiefs of divisions in the virousdepartment5 are allowed clerks wh > hare been usual by stenographers sow these are being supplanted 011 every haid by the typewriter and by the combined stenogr pher and typewriter type-writer Philadelphia Times |